Improve Your Health and Your Relationship with Yoga

Yoga is an excellent way to increase strength, agility and blood flow to all parts of the body. You can be any age, shape or size to enjoy the benefits of yoga. There are hundreds of styles and various levels to explore from gentle stretching and breathing exercises for the physically challenged – to advanced power yoga for an incredibly intense workout. Consistency is essential for maintaining peace, focus, agility, and optimum health and well-being.

Overcoming Fear of Commitment and Creating a Long-Lasting, Healthy, Happy Partnership

So how do you feel about the “C” word? – no, not THAT one. I’m talking about commitment. It is one thing to choose to date someone exclusively, as you both may agree to be monogamous and fully committed to one another – until you get bored with it and move on to someone else. But to level up and commit to marriage? Now that is a BIG step!

Dating is like a weekend in Vegas, as you enjoy sampling the extensive buffets, throw down what you’ve got on the table, and hope for the best possible outcome. Yes, dating is a gamble and you have to be prepared for getting your heart broken, or being the heart-breaker.

Feeling Twitterpated… Enjoying Love, Life and Springtime!

In many parts of the northern hemisphere, signs of spring are beginning to appear all around us. Trees are budding, birds are signing, flowers are blooming, and the animals (including humans) are… well… twitterpated.

Do you remember in the classic cartoon movie Bambi, when the young animal friends learn about what being “twitterpated” is? It is not about posting comments on Twitter, or any other social network. However many couples do find love connections and practice plenty of flirting on social media sites. What I am referring to here is the feeling of excitement and arousal when we are sexually attracted to another. After a long dreary winter, springtime brings forth a freshness of new life, passion and desire.

Women Get Better With Age – and So Does the Sex!

Just like fine wine, women get better with age – and so does the sex. During our younger years, social time is spent either in excessive party-mode or completely focused on academic and personal development. Curiosity about sex is generally fulfilled by amateur experimentation, books, films, and/or random hearsay from others. Our first intimate relationships mainly consist of trying to figure out what we’re doing and becoming comfortable with sharing our bodies with another person. Most young women feel extremely insecure about how they look, as they tend to compare themselves to all the other girls – even airbrushed supermodels in magazines and on TV. Lacking self-confidence and experience, teenage girls and women in their early 20’s are generally not as knowledgeable or skillful in the bedroom, unable to fully enjoy the passion and potential of intimacy.

Secret Pleasures of Menopause

I’m not an the menopausal stage quite yet, however in turning 41 this year, I want to be prepared for the gradual transition within my body – emotionally and physically. Also, I have a lot of friends who are going though “the change” and would like to provide supportive information to women in this tranformative stage in their lives.

I’d like to share an amazing resource with you from one of my favorite authors, Dr. Christiane Northrup, an internationally known expert on women’s health and wellness. Dr. Northrup explains the “7 Secret Keys That Open the Door to Wonderful Sexuality and Sensuality around Menopause”. Here is her advice, excerpted from the book, The Secret Pleasures of Menopause.

Could He Be Going Through MANopause?

Women may not be the only ones who experience a “life change” in their bodies and emotions as they become older. Some doctors claim that many of their male patients report similar symptoms that women endure in perimenopause and menopause. Some men experience decreased energy and muscle tone, disinterest in sex, impotence, depression, and fatigue. They also report weight gain, hair loss, memory loss, irritability, hot flashes, night sweats and trouble sleeping. Andropause, also known as male menopause or MANopause, is the result of a gradual drop in testosterone which is an androgen, giving the condition its name. After men reach their sexual prime in their early 20’s, they begin losing testosterone at a rate of one to two percent a year, and noticeable effects can usually be felt by age 35.